3 gallon clones

So I have 3 clones this season and I'm trying to get an early harvest outta them. My question I have heard that cannabis plants will flower when it gets severely root bound is this possible or am I just gonna have to cover it every night?

Cover it. Root bound is bad and does.not as far as I know force flower. Bud is photoperiod other than.ruderalis so you would just be hurting your plants

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Look into the light depo threads and cover them nightly. I am bringing my 3 gallons in every night at 645 and putting them back out after the sun has set.

You can root bind them if you want but I don't see that adding anything to your grow other than issues.

Alright for sure Thanks for the input I figured I would have to cover them just kinda sucks Cuz I'm at work at night lol. So it kinda makes it hard to cover before

Just bring them inside (dark room) when you get off work, don't let them out until 8am the next morning. Be sure to gradually compensate for increasing daylight, as the days get longer you should be taking them out later in the morning.
As long as their getting there 12hrs dark

Ok so I got a question about the 12 hours. Can I do less t hen 12 hours off darkness or does it have to be like right aro under 12 hours

12/12 is simulating the coming fall so you want to keep as close to that as possible. More light hours could trigger your plant to reveg. I wouldn't go past the 12-13 hr mark of light or you risk a reset.

I'm not taking more hours of light I'm talking more hours of darkness

My bad.. You can but the hours of light that you are sacrificing is going to affect your yield. Say you go 10-14, I would think that it would make for smaller buds. I haven't done this but I have read some success with indica doms but failed with sativas. I would say try it out with some smaller plants and see if it's something you are willing to do with your main plants.

Well I. Was just saying Cuz my work might interfere with when I need.to take the plants back In to darkness. But it wouldn be 2 hours more.like an hour or so. Maybe less tho it all depends when I work an all but these are my small ones that's why I wanna do that to them. I'm using the clones maybe 4 inches on 2 and maybe 6 on the other one Cuz I'm not trying to do that to my seedlings there not even mature enough. I'm growing my seedlings.to the end of.the season those are gonna be my heavy yields all I'm trying to do is get a few ounces mid.way threw the season.

Try to find a time that you average being off work at. I have a set schedule so it's easier for me to do. An hour shouldn't cause any issues but I wouldn't push it past that.

angryblackman said:

12/12 is simulating the coming fall so you want to keep as close to that as possible. .

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What happens if plants get more then 12 hours of dark lets say 13 - 15 hours of dark
per day?
I imagine the only thing that would happen
would be that it would take longer for the plants to fully mature
or is there no change in the flowering rate/finishing period?

I believe you are correct. I could be wrong though as I haven't actually tried any of this out. This is all coming from things that I have gathered from picking brains over the last 4 years.

Correct as in it would take longer for the plants to mature or as in there would be no change in the flowering finishing rate?

I really need to stop posting from work and try to completely answer questions when I do! LOL

I would assume that they would take longer to mature and as long as they are not getting the "recommended" 12/12. But now this has me thinking about the final yield. When we see flowering times most are going by 12/12 and counting the weeks from there. I don't know of anyone that's run anything other than that with great success. I see most trying as an experiment and going back to 12/12 stating that it's not worth it. I think I need to do more research on this one. Sorry if I haven't helped at all.

Last summer, in my first outdoor grow, my Super Silver Hazes started showing flowers July 18th or so. I was VERY surprised, and thought I was having optimistic hallucinations! I counted back, and figured out that they will flower with only 8.5 hours of darkness. (This was very handy because it's a heavy sativa blend, and they take FOREVER to finish, 10-13 weeks, in central Oregon, the rainstorms can start mid Sept!)

Mind you, these plants had vegged indoors for 2 months, at least, so the switch from 24 hours of light, to 15 could have triggered them.

But I tested that 8.5 hour trigger point, later on my indoor grows for SSH. Same thing! Now when I switch them from veg to flower, I do 15 light/9 dark, and they do just fine.

From everything I've read, that extra 3 hours of light per day during flowering stage, helps to increase harvest. Frankly, it wasn't really hurting anything, and I need all the help I can get sometimes.

Sorry for my long winded response. The shorter answer is: Yes. You can fiddle with the 12/12 schedule -- there's leeway, either way you choose. Search around and see if you can find the exact light/flowering requirements for the strains you're growing.

Best of luck!

What would happen with 15 dark/9 light?

I think with that many dark hours, you would reduce the overall harvest (less light=less buds, I keep hearing).

But, I think you would also trick the plant into thinking "Winter is coming" (I sound like the Starks, on Game of Thrones), and so it would hustle up, and finish faster.

I guess it's a trade off, smaller harvest, but finishing a little quicker.

Yea I have heard that heavy sativas can still flower with 13.5 hours of light it just depends but thanks guys for the reply Ithink I may try putting them under 12 hours of lightn see what happened

Milovan said:

What would happen with 15 dark/9 light?

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I had a clone last summer that was flowering and I wanted to stress her into growing nanners and giving me some female seeds. I cut her daylight from 13.5 to between 10-11 hrs. Within a couple of days she grew nanners. After a couple days I let her get the 13+hrs again. She had lots of nanners but I never found a single seed in the weed. This year I will do the same with a clone or runt and keep cutting the daylight even after the nanners show up to see if that works.Its fun to mess around with them, That clone was a broken lower branch I found when watering one day the end of June lol. I like to have a couple of projects during the growing season.

Imo once you go under 12hrs the plant will think the end is near and ripen and try to reproduce itself via nanners.